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By terms of the panama Canl Treaties of 1977, the united States

 

a. would turn over the canal to full panamanian control immediately.

 

b. proposed to turn over the canal to panama by the year 2000.

 

c. promised to builod a new canl through panama.

 

d. promised to support the current Panamanian government.

Definition
b.
Term

The Nicaraguan Revolutio of 1979 was led by

 

a. Fidel Castro.

b. A. Somoza

c. Sandinisstas.

d.Manuel Noriega.

Definition
c.
Term

The Camp David meeting in 1978 occurred to

 

a. work for recognition of communist China.

b. find a solution to problems in th Middle East.

c. study the Three Mile Island accident.

d. none of the above.

Definition

b.

Term

Following the Yom Kippur War, the most powerful Arab weapon in the struggle against Israel became

 

a. Soviet missiles.

 

b. American diplomatic support.

 

c. Arab oil.

 

d. The Palestine Liberation Organization.

Definition
c.
Term

A major economice problem for president Carter was

 

a. an increase in U.S. exports.

b. alow tax rate.

c. a too high tariff.

d. inflation.

Definition
d.
Term

The Panama Canal Treaties of 1977

 

a. were supported mostly by Repubblicans.

 

b. received congressional but not presidential support.

 

c. wre ratified by a narrow two-thirds manority.

d. failed to pass Congress.

Definition
c.
Term

The foreign plicy issue that pobably cost Carter the  1980 election involved

 

a. Iran.

b. the Soviet Union.

c. Red china.

d. Vietnam.

Definition
a.
Term

America's worst nuclear disaster occurred at

 

a. chernobyI.

b. Three Mile Island.

c. San Onofre.

d. San Andres

Definition

b

Term

One of Gerald Ford's most memeorable actions was

 

a. to rescue the hostages in Iran.

 

b. bomb the Caribbean island of Grenada.

 

c. pardon Richard Nixon.

 

d. to preven the fall of South Vietnam to the communists.

Definition
c.
Term

To fight the energy crisis, jimmy carter

 

a. called on the national government to take over all oil companies.

 

b. proposed buying more foreign oil.

 

c. suggested that the United States convert to wind power.

 

d. supported building more nuclear power plants.

Definition
d
Term

One of president Carter's most significant foreign policy accomplishments was

 

a. establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba.

 

b. getting the hostages released form Iran.

 

c. establishing formal diplomatic relations with Red China.

 

d. forcing the Soviets out of Afghanistan.

 

Definition
c.
Term

The United States boycotted the 1980 Olympies because of

 

a. Soviet support for the Arabs against Israel.

b. Frear the Americans would not win many medals.

c. the soviet invastion of afghanistan.

d. the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Definition
c.
Term

Under Jimmy carter

 

a. inflation reached a new high.

 

b. relations with the Soviets improved.

 

c. american won the most medals ever in the Olympics.

 

d. acomprehensive peace plan was reached in the Middle East.

Definition
a.
Term

The Equal Rights Amendment

 

a. never passed in congress.

b. first got introduced in congress in the 1920s

c. got put into effect in 1982.

d. got opposed by Now.

Definition
b.
Term

Ronald Reagan had been

 

a. a peanut farmer.

b. mayor of Atlanta.

c. governor of Illinois.

d. a Demorat.

Definition
d.
Term

the only vice-president to resign in the twentieth century was

 

a. Spiro Agnew

b. John C. Calhoun.

c. Theodore Roosevelt.

d. Richard Nixon.

Definition
a.
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